qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
In 2020 Tla’amin Nation broke ground by starting the first building projects in over 15 years on Nation land. Five of these projects have just been completed.
Continue reading Building boom in a West Coast First Nationqathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s been a century since sockeye and chum have spawned in Unwin Lake. That’s because the creek between Desolation Sound and Unwin was dammed for logging.
Now, Tla’amin Nation’s new lands and resources director, Denise Smith, is spearheading a project to reintroduce the salmon.
Continue reading Dammed for 100 yearsqathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Beading helps share knowledge, good laughs, and support for each other through hard times. That’s why beading is important to me, as both an art, and community-centred experience.”
So explains Klahoose and Tla’amin Nation member Emily White, who’s contemporary beading designs are pushing the boundaries of the traditional art form (see left). The 24-year-old Tla’amin Nation intergovernmental policy and fiscal analyst learned to bead in 2018 from the Elders in Residence at the University of Victoria – over many lunchtimes as she was completing her degree in Indigenous Studies and ethics. She especially credits Métis Elder Barb Hulme.
Continue reading Beyond Beads
By Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
In lead up to National Indigenous Peoples Day, the province is supporting First Nations language and culture revitalization through nearly $35 million in new funding towards the First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) and the First Peoples Cultural Foundation (FPCF).
Continue reading Province contributes new funding towards First Nations language and culture revitalization
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Editor’s note: The Klahoose, Homalco and Tla’amin First Nations are among the 102 First Nations demanding that fish farms be moved onto land.
It’s been nearly five years since Tribal Chief Tyrone McNeil has pulled salmon from the Fraser River and strung fish over wooden racks to dry in the wind, preserving food for his family and his people’s ancestral traditions.
He and other First Nations leaders and communities in B.C. dependent on salmon are grieving the ongoing disappearance of the fish that defines them. And they are angry Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) continues to deny their constitutional right of first access to fish, said McNeil, president of Stó꞉lō Tribal Council.
Continue reading ‘We are salmon people’: First Nation leaders in B.C. demand audience with fisheries minister
